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  1. Nicht nur die #Römer verbanden Geschäft mit dem „Geschäft“. Auch der US-Präsident Lyndon B. Johnson hielt Meetings ab, während er auf dem #Thron saß. Vermutlich zum Missfallen seiner Mitarbeiter.

    #Geschichte

    knowledgenuts.com/2013/08/20/l

  2. Nicht nur die #Römer verbanden Geschäft mit dem „Geschäft“. Auch der US-Präsident Lyndon B. Johnson hielt Meetings ab, während er auf dem #Thron saß. Vermutlich zum Missfallen seiner Mitarbeiter.

    #Geschichte

    knowledgenuts.com/2013/08/20/l

  3. The Yellow Menu

    A grieving man returns to his hometown and finds shelter from a tornado—and his past—with the bus driver who once carried him home.

    Micah Lyndon had imagined Lost Gap larger than this.

    For twenty years it had remained within him as a country of pine shadow and red-clay driveways, of mailboxes leaning toward the roadside, of warm blacktop running away into trees, of small creeks swollen brown after rain. In his memory the woods were immense, the roads endless, the hills steep enough to rise beneath a boy like the back of some sleeping animal. Even after he had gone north, even after he had learned cities and interstate exits and apartment windows looking down over streets where no one knew his name, Lost Gap had retained the proportions of childhood.

    It had stayed enormous because he had never returned long enough to measure it.

    Now the roads curved too soon. The distances had collapsed. The hill that had once seemed dangerous when the school bus climbed it in winter was hardly more than a rise. A house he remembered as white stood abandoned behind brush and young pines, its porch listing toward the weeds. The convenience store where he used to buy candy and bottled drinks after school had been boarded shut, the paint on its sign faded until it resembled something remembered rather than something seen. Kudzu rolled over the back lot and sagged from telephone poles, covering the places time no longer intended to explain.

    Micah drove slowly, although there was almost no traffic.

    He had come expecting grief, though he had not known precisely what kind.

    His marriage had ended the year before, not with betrayal or great anger, but with the long exhaustion of two people who had become considerate strangers. His work, once the ladder by which he expected to climb into meaning, had begun to feel like a room he had remained in after everyone else went home.

    Then, three nights earlier, unable to sleep, he had typed Lost Gap, Mississippi into his phone.

    The name itself had struck him with an almost scriptural force.

    Lost Gap.

    A place named for absence. A break in the ridge. An opening through something otherwise impassable. A home that sounded, even while he lived there, as though it had already vanished.

    He had packed the next morning and driven south.

    Read the rest of the story at Crawdad Epiphanies https://medium.com/@keith.lyndaker/the-yellow-menu-7056e723db66

    https://medium.com/@keith.lyndaker/the-yellow-menu-7056e723db66

    https://medium.com/@keith.lyndaker/the-yellow-menu-7056e723db66

    #Belonging #childhood #Community #grief #homecoming #literaryFiction #loss #LostGapMississippi #memory #Mississippi #protection #roadsideDiner #SchoolBus #shortStory #southernGothic #Storms #survival #TheYellowSign #Tornado #WaffleHouseIndex
  4. #LetterboxdFriday

    • DEKALOG parts V, VI & VII •
    • A SHORT FILM ABOUT KILLING •
    • A SHORT FILM ABOUT LOVE •
    Watched three more episodes of Dekalog, and the expanded theatrical versions of two of those episodes.

    • BARRY LYNDON •
    Another wish granted from my “movies I’d like to rewatch on big screen” list. The costumes, enormous paintings, interiors, exteriors and pastoral views are all experienced as Kubrick and cinematographer John Alcott intended.

    letterboxd.com/onuryasar/

    #Movies

  5. Supreme Court voting rights ruling fuels a new push to defend Black representation

    ATLANTA – Same fight. New generation. That’s the mantra of a multiracial group of civil rights leaders and…
    #Politics #BennieThompson #BrianP.Kemp #DerrickJohnson #DonaldTrump #ethnicity #JamesClyburn #JaredEvans #LyndonB.Johnson #LyndonJohnson #MartinLutherKingJr. #race #RaphaelWarnock #ShaneMassey #TerriSewell
    europesays.com/2990530/

  6. Kansas has voted Republican in the past 15 presidential elections, according to Wikipedia.

    Kansas hasn’t voted for a Democrat for president since it voted for Lyndon Johnson in 1964, when he ran against Barry Goldwater.

    That means it has been 62 years since a Democrat has won Kansas in a presidential election.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_S

    15/x

    #LBJ #Kansas #Presidential #Election

  7. Il y a 60 ans, en mars 1966, le président de la République Charles de Gaulle informait le président des États-Unis, Lyndon B. Johnson, de sa décision de retirer la France du commandement intégré de l'Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord (OTAN).

    Ce serait une bonne idée pour fêter cet anniversaire, d'en ressortir non ? Étant donné le contexte américain, encore plus.

    #stopus #usgohome #stopusa #usagohome

  8. "Pentagon staffers have reportedly begun referring to their big boss, Pete Hegseth, as Dumb McNamara, a reference to the Secretary of Defense under Lyndon Johnson who oversaw the disastrous U.S. war effort in Vietnam. Yes, that’s pretty bad, but it’s even worse."

    ~ Lucian K. Truscott

    #Hegseth #Trump #Iran #war #incompetence #WhiteChristianNationalism #PerformativeMasculinity
    /5

    luciantruscott.substack.com/p/

  9. Donald #Trump droht dem Iran, das Land „in die Steinzeit zurück zu bomben“. Er greift mit dieser menschenverachtenden Rhetorik eine Formulierung auf, die dem früheren #US-Präsidenten Lyndon B. Johnson im #Vietnamkrieg zugeschrieben wird. Das Ergebnis ist bekannt

  10. March 15, 1965 - Less than a week after the Bloody Sunday police attacks on peaceful marchers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, President Lyndon Johnson addressed the American people before a televised Joint Session of Congress. He said, “There is no issue of States rights or national rights. There is only the struggle for human rights . . . We have already waited a hundred years and more, and the time for waiting is gone . . . .”
    #HumanRights #LBJ

  11. I was tempted to post a simple "Ignore Tony, follow Harold!" message to Starmer, but as this article suggests, Wilson's "keeping the UK out of Vietnam" story is not quite that straightforward.

    historytoday.com/archive/brita

    #Iran #USUKRealtions #VietnamWar #HaroldWilson #SpecialRelationship #LBJ #LyndonBainesJohnson

  12. I was tempted to post a simple "Ignore Tony, follow Harold!" message to Starmer, but as this article suggests, Wilson's "keeping the UK out of Vietnam" story is not quite that straightforward.

    historytoday.com/archive/brita

    #Iran #USUKRealtions #VietnamWar #HaroldWilson #SpecialRelationship #LBJ #LyndonBainesJohnson

  13. I was tempted to post a simple "Ignore Tony, follow Harold!" message to Starmer, but as this article suggests, Wilson's "keeping the UK out of Vietnam" story is not quite that straightforward.

    historytoday.com/archive/brita

    #Iran #USUKRealtions #VietnamWar #HaroldWilson #SpecialRelationship #LBJ #LyndonBainesJohnson

  14. I was tempted to post a simple "Ignore Tony, follow Harold!" message to Starmer, but as this article suggests, Wilson's "keeping the UK out of Vietnam" story is not quite that straightforward.

    historytoday.com/archive/brita

    #Iran #USUKRealtions #VietnamWar #HaroldWilson #SpecialRelationship #LBJ #LyndonBainesJohnson